The State Professional Monitoring Agency and heads of provinces and districts will be responsible for enforcing the order, which comprises 11 chapters and 36 provisions. The aim of the order is to restrict the scope of ninja mining activities by imposing a total ban on mining in bodies of water and to more tightly control the mining of ores containing radioactive elements and of oil and natural gas. (MONGOLIA-WEB, supra.)

The ninja miners are obligated, under the order, to form cooperatives of at least five members and to work under legal agreements that govern the areas and means of mining ore, especially gold, and the ore's subsequent processing and sale. A cooperative will be given at most five hectares (about 12.36 acres) to mine. No member of one cooperative can be included as the member of another. The order prescribes that an agreement can be cancelled, even after having been duly signed, if an inspection reveals that the mining activities have caused damage to the environment. It also stipulates that members of a cooperative who fail to conduct proper post-mining reclamation work will be prohibited from joining a new cooperative. (Id.)

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